What is the holiday on October 30 in Ukraine and the world: everything about this day

On October 30 , Orthodox believers honor the memory of the holy martyr Zinovius and the martyr Zinovia. Anatoly, Andriy, Anton, Joseph, Leontiy, Oleksandr, Serhiy, Zinaida, and Zinovia celebrate their name days.

The world celebrates the Day of Employees of Units for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking, the International Day of Orthopedic Nurses, and the Day of Sugar Addiction Awareness. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on October 30

October 30, according to the New Julian calendar, is the day of remembrance of the holy martyr Zinovius and the martyr Zinovia. The brother and sister grew up in a pious family. Having been orphaned early on, they gave their inheritance to the poor and devoted their lives to serving the Lord. Zinoviy had the gift of healing the sick. In times of severe persecution of Christians, Zinovius was summoned for questioning by Emperor Diocletian. His sister, hearing the news of his imprisonment, voluntarily went to the emperor and wanted to save her brother. At first, the emperor tried to convince them both to offer sacrifices to idols, and then executed the believers.

October 30 is the Day of Employees of Units Combating Drug Trafficking in Ukraine. The presidential decree establishing the specialized unit dates back to 1993.

Other countries around the world also celebrate October 30:

• First Love Day in Japan;
• Food and Nutrition Security Day in Africa;
• Candy Corn Day in the United States;
• Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation.

Notable historical events on October 30

• 1653 - The coffin of the late Tymofiy Khmelnytsky is brought into the hetman's capital Chyhyryn to the sound of cannon fire;
• 1888 - Laud John patented the ballpoint pen.
• 1918 - the Ottoman Empire surrenders in World War I.
• 1941 - the blockade of Sevastopol from the land began during World War II.
• 1943 - the Moscow Conference signed an agreement on the creation of the United Nations.
• 1961 - the USSR detonated the most powerful hydrogen bomb in history.
• 1987 - the Ukrainian rock band Vopli Vidoplyasova (VV) debuted in Kyiv.

Who was born on October 30

• 1735 - John Adams, second president of the United States.
• 1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, prominent English writer, playwright, politician.
• 1839 - Alfred Sisley, famous French landscape painter, one of the founders of Impressionism.
• 1871 - Paul Valery, French poet and philosopher, a prominent representative of French symbolism.
• 1881 - William Boeing, American aircraft designer.
• 1882 - Mykhailo Boichuk, Ukrainian artist, monumental painter.
• 1885 - Ezra Pound, American modernist poet.
• 1911 - Hryhorii Kruk, Ukrainian sculptor and graphic artist who worked in Germany.
• 1930 - Richard Harris, Irish actor ("Gladiator", "Harry Potter").
• 1936 - Volodymyr Ivantsiv, Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic.
• 1937 - Claude Lelouch, French director, screenwriter, actor.
• 1944 - Scott McKenzie, American singer, author of the 60s anthem "San Francisco".
• 1960 - Diego Maradona, Argentine football player.

Died on this day:

• 1823 - Edmund Cartwright, English inventor.
• 1947 - Yuri Klen (Oswald-Eckard Burghardt), Ukrainian neoclassical poet.
• 1956 - Volodymyr Filatov, ophthalmologist, surgeon, inventor, academician of the Ukrainian SSR and USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, founder and first director of the Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.
• 1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• 1982 - Iryna Wilde, Ukrainian writer. Winner of the Shevchenko Prize.
• 2020 - Borys Drobotiuk, Honored Artist of Ukraine, graphic artist and painter.

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